The Sun. — London, England, 1810-02-17 00:00:00

r---= Tfi E S 15 N. &OigSeQUIS DICERE FiL*Ubl 4UDEAT ? L 0 N D D N, SATUr.DA y, FEBRUARY 17, 1810. lloublon - 1 37 Mr. Burgoyne - - - 34 Total for Mr. lloubion- . 25 t 9 Mr; Bitrgoyne - - St r ti. ARIL IV ZD-2 Waterford. 'tiut---6 Cottenburgh, : Dublin, i Waterford. PRICE OF . STOCKS THIS DAY AT TwELva -.O'CLOCK. Consols . - Red. Ann. - 6SI --The more we refle& upon the unexpe&ed passage of, the Sierra' Morena, the more:we are inclined to attributelt ,to the treachery of some. of those who have .the dire&ion of Spanish affairs, The French would, we think, have hardly.made a movement so much in advance, with such a formidable force o n their flanks, if .they had to rely merely upon their Military force. But whether we are right in our conjeAures or not, we are happy to, find that the Viench 'have been disappointed in their hopes of surprising cadiz ? and that every exertion has been made to .place that important city in a state of de fence, to enable it to resist, even a regular attack. We have seen a letter from Cadiz, dated the 3d of this month, which states that General CAMPBELL bad been enabled to spare 1200 men from Gibraltar, • :o assist in its defence. Every precaution has also l-en adopted, at the suggestion of Admiral PURVIS, respecting the batteries which command the har bour, in case the French should unfortunately get possession-of the city. • A Message was last night sent to both Mouses of Parliament, acquainting them that his Majesty had taken po,ooo Portuguese troops into British pay.—_ The subjea of this Message is to be taken into con bideration on Monday next. Theßritomart sloop of war arrived at Yarnriouth on Tlit,nsday, from the Dutch.coast.' Shea was told by people from the Texl, that the French - bad marched into Amsterdam, and that they had de.; dared war against America. Essex ELECTION.—The numbers at the final close of Ole poll yesterday were— , , Majority 1708 As Mr, BURGIUNE must have been convinced very early on 'the pall that he 'had no chance of f ; ‘) ei; toil] s uccess, and as its Progress must every day have confirmed that'colfvit9i6n, 'his friends cannot tint condemn his perseverance in disturbing the County by so Hopeless a contest, but it brings its: raluishment in a more Complete triumph of his ad . ver.sary. Letters were kesterday received from II . )11and to (4 'B(h. They state, that grek numbers of-French custom- house Officers had been stationed along the coast to see the laws for the exclusion of American ) Ships and British ManufaEtures striOly enforced.— A lar-ge body of French troops is said to be marching. for Holstein. Onr ttraoi,s were embarkinvon the 25th it. at Gibraltar to take possession (4 Ceuta. Yesterday the Commander in Chief„, Sir DLVID MINIMS, held a Mtiitary Levee at his Office at the, Horse Guards, which was attended by his Royal Lliqlmess the .Puke of CUAIBIMLAisb, his Highness - the Due of GLoucesTEß, an a numerous train of neral and other Officers. , • 1.:4 Lord Mayor of Dublin gave a very splendid maspicrad , : on friday se'nnight, at the Mansion house —The whole was well-conduaed, and was a very liberal proof of civic taste and hospitality. Fine portraits'of the King, the Queen, and the Duke of Cu - nibcflaltd, by Sir W. BBECHEY,_ added much to tae he3uly of the scene and the pleasure of the com pany. . - We have seldom, if ever, had the pleasure of, re cording an atlion, - in which: the superior skill of our Commander, aided by the native courage of•our tats, his beet so conspicuous, as in the one which has lately taken place in the West Indies with the .I, , :nbn frigate, c fru:landed t,y Capt. Shortland. It appears frotn the most authenticaecounts yet re (*eivcd from our own Commande . .s, that Capt. Short -1.40 sustained a running fight for 3 successive days with four of the enemy's frigates, and a sloop (carry ing-troops, &c. for the relief of Guadalou.:,e), and afterwards gloriously maintained the• pre-eminence 'of the itish flag against their combined efforts for an hour and a half close combat—yard-arrn and this'sttuation -he lost an arm and re ceiveda very severe wound in his leg. Still he toritinne.l the contest ';• nor did he surrender till he found the, ,Anon so crippled that 'she could never :again c..nry , tie flag of an enemy he then felt that further-contest against suchouvriotnolnhetst,vas only exposing the lives of these orave fellowS wino bad so nobly supportod him: and he had the satisfaction of seeing th, Anon go down almost as soon as he. leflher. ' Thus, by the tinprecedentecihrave r y of Capitlin Shortland and his crew-, has the object of theetieiny, the relief of Guidaloupa, been nearly, if not coinpletely' frustrated„as the prolonged contest cnabied a'sloop' in cbtripany with the Anon to give intylligenee to our fleen;- and though the 'enemy §0c ,&_.&,1 i n lanai ng some of their troops, they were obliged to blow up two trigates, together with their to prevent their falling into our 11,1114- ~The p has been ,captured by. Captain Haw ker, and t tis,r ot VI- Iwo frigates h ave b een g l ad to escape into Brest to rcpair\ their datfiagei. Yesterday_ the Lord ALlyor and, Sheriffs, with several Aldtrmen,:the Arc. bicbc,p pf Cantetburv, :and several Bishoi:s went in state,to Bow Church; ..,'iteapsicle,' accord ng 'o annual Curtom, to hear a sermon, pre , c;ied by .the Bishop of Norvvich, for the Society for propagatinz the Gospel hi foreign party. A lib,nal collection was made,' atter which they returned to the Mal::iion-house to an elegant enter taintuent. , •• • • NAVAL NEW-'." PLYMOUTIi i FEB. 1 5.---Yesterday a Ffanlan be, longing to his Majesty's ship Raleigh, hung hint- , 4elf at the' gewsprii:ena of that ship. The' Raleigh, with her convoy, bound to the East ward, was obliged to put back last evening, by.con trary winds. Arrived the brig Ann, of Poole,R. STANNvo,t,, Master, from Newfoundland, laden with . oil, and seal-skins, bound to Poole, put in here by contrary by contrary winds; was captured by a French pri vateer, and recaptured by his Majesty's ship Plover, Cavain BROWN. The brig Belin, of Jersey, P. GALLEY, Master, fromLi,bon, laden with salt and fruit, for this port; about the I.st Oaober, she, was captured, by the Grande Decide .French privateer, in lat. 49. 20. N. who took out the Master and crew, except two seamen, - and a boy who had se creted himselfin'the hold; a Prize-maSter and seven seamen were then sent on board the Belin, who kept` possession till about the Bth November, whin the two men and boy rose on the French crew, and succeeded in throwing the "Prize-master overboard, and driving the 'remainder into •the fore -cabin, where they were battened' down they were, in conse luence, in complete possession of the vessel until the 13th November, when the Frenchmen rose on them, and killed the .two seamen, leaving the boy to tell the fate of his brave companions; a, few days after, she was boarded by the Inckfatigalle schoon- ei, belonging to Bristol,. who took possession of her; and sent the Frenchmen on board the schooner ; two days subsequent she was fallen' in' with by his Majesty's skip Vestal, who carried her into Lisbon. ArVived the Portuguese ship Admiral Aelson, from Rio Janeiro, bound to London, - put in here by contrary , winds ; the AmeriCan brig Eliza, Soth- MON NORTON, Master, from Tarragona, laden - with with wine and brandy, bound to this port for orders. Sailed his Majesty's ship Dreadnought, for Basque Roads ; his Majesty's • brig Raleigh, with a convoy to the Eastward ; the Agenoria, Le cocet, for Al derney ; Union, DAVIS. for Dublin ; Devonshire, ROWELL, for .Corunna - ; Sopltici,'-, for Guern sey; Tamar, FisuLEY, for St:Michas. PORTSMOUTH,: FEB. !G.—Came in this day his Majesty's ship Lily, with dispatches frorn C4cliZ also his Majesty's ship Leda from the Eastward. Arrived the Robert, Lucas, from the Ddwns,- for Mogadore; the Unity; Bonny, froin Ipswicii ; 'WATSON; .. and Minerva, WEATHERHEAD, from Sunderland. Sailed . this day his Majesty's ships '.Own Glen- dower for off Cherbon , gh ; his Majesty's ships Diana, Marlborough, Pallas, Ganymede, Goskawk, Trian, Tar4ar,.and Cyane for the Easlward; also his Ma jesty's ship Violet with a convoy for _Guernsey. Sailed also his Majesty's ship Rifleman, of •18 guns, C.lpt.lNtqcs, with a convoy for Fyal,.which are as coder-mentioned, viz. Alexander, Price; • Orion. Groves; Elizabeth, Carr; ILiwk, Blue ; Perseverance, Snowden ; and Dixon, Snowden, also for fyal,: the Pacific, for Amelia's Island ; ah . o the ['llion,' Dove, for Waterford ; TWo Friends, Mant ; Telemachus, Richards ; and Speculator, Langon, for Lon don. His Majesty's ship Linnet takes convoy to the Downs. SHEERNESS, FEB.] s.—Arrived his Majesty's brig s Chanticleer, Columbine, and Hearty. COWES, FEE. 16.-Arrived here this morning the American - ship • Huron, • Capt. 'CLARK,E, laden with turpentine, cotton, and; other merchandiie, from Wilmington bound for Cadiz with a super cargo on board. Said ship was taken by a FrenCh privateer, who took out the supercargo and all the cre,v, except.the f Captain and two ;nen, and was afterwards recaptUred by the English frigate Vestal, and brought inter this port; atAt i FEB: 15.--Atrited - the Fisgard frigate , from a cruize'otr • Sailed' the Tribune and Leda frigates to the West -ward. A Dutch boy is on the Goodwin Sands. His Majesty's. ships remain as per last. • RIXHAPI QUAY, FEB. 15.—S7iled his• Majesty's ships Tonnant, Antelope, Ac and' Gambier cutter. , At the evacuation of .Clagenfurth, in Carinthia, the French destroyed the fortifications at Grate and Itaah. While employed in destroying a ravelin, a FerNti t ofimtnense size, was foulid, which wound ed-seteral persons belott they succeeded in killing it. Thi§ rep! ile weighed 6 pounds. • It may sometimes happen that in giving gold boxes to particular persunc, the City may,.at the some time, secure the fi - ealoov or those per its 'more etfeClually than by a piece of parchmat. The other day JOHN MAL'D, Esq. of AldeNate stieet, received a letter by the Twopenny Post, threatening his,life if he did not obtain the pardOn of two men, whoM he convicied at the last Old Bailey. Sessions of a robbrrv.on his premise's : the tanguage was coarse and terrific. 0.em12: FEE. EXTRACT 01 , A LETTER. "The news in this quarter is of so alarming a na ture,. that I have deem yd it prudent to hire an Aine rican vessel, and with her intend to proceed to England, btu not until find the state 'of affairs is such, 341 that no hope can. remain. The French passed a strong division from Almaden to Cor dova, by the way of La - Jars, Albania, Ferisa, Villa Franca, and Trainsierra, surprising that town before we were aware of their' approach. -By this bold step they rendered all the fortified passes in Sierra Morena of no utility, for as soon as the arm)) of the centre learned that a French force was-in their rear, it instantly abandoned all the 'passes, and fell back upon the kingdom of Jaen. In the trunk of an Officer of rank of the army was found the plan of operations of the French, written by',Morla 11411- self, and the discovery of which was the cause of the extraordinary march of the'Duke of Albuquer que to the Island of Leon. Tire plan of the enemy w.ts to march direct upon Cadiz, leaving Seville Upon • their right, which had so far been effed ed but as soon as Albuquerque learned thit the enemy were at Utrera, and their plan disclosed to him, he cut off by Mariotna, and arrived here, to the :surprise of every one, at the moment the.Su-, preme Junta was d e livering up their p ow e r i nto t h e hands of a Regency of their own appointment.—, The people of Seville abc »ard the Junta alto gether, declated their power null and void, and formed another with the title, and upon tbe plan of the old Provincial Junta. The people• instantly obeyed its authority, and flew" in all, directions in pursuit of the Members of the Supreme Junta, many of whom they sticceeded in arresting. -" We have just this moment heard that the French have retired from ,their acianeed position, and that the Duke del Parque has arrived, having followed the steps of Albuquerque:!' SC:CIEiT FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS, MANU- FACTURES, AND COMMERCE. At a Meeting of this emery useful Society, on Wednesday evening, the Silver Medal and TWenty Guineas were balloied for, and confirmed as a bounty to the liev. JA-Miss BREMNER, - for his me thod.of making every ship's boat. a life-boat ; a contrivance which will be found of great value to a crew on : board a ship in danger of sinking. The Silver Medal was also balloted for and confirmed as a bounty to Mr. HUTTON for ail improved reaping hook. Mr. HorroN's hook possesses the advantages . of ccubttling the sickle with theconnuon reaping-. hook, and will enable those who have occasion to use the instrument to get through more •work than could be effected by 'tad one which has till now been used.. It was found in the late hatvt:st a great pte,erver, 'a .quantity of corn 'having been scat- tered, owing to e heavy On the second, reading of the Minutes of the . last • M-2eting, which expresses the Society's -regret on . hearing of the death of the late CALEB •WHITE- FoORD, Esq. who had the honour of heing one of the ViceAkres:denta of the Society,• and who had ..been a iVierub,:r - ior ift-ar halt a century, a motion was made by Vy 7 milAtu Aleagnirti, Esq. that the widow of Mr. NlYnyrEypotto be applied to, in the name of the Inst:tation, as a mark of respect to the memory of the d,-ceased, ; to permit them to have the . use of the best drawing or painting of the de-, teas, din her posSession, for the purpose of taking an engr ,vine 'from the same, to ,be ‘ prefixed as a frontispiece to the twenty-eighth volume of the So ciety's Transamions. Mr. MEREDITH, in preficing his [notion, paid many handsome compliments to the memory of the departed (in which, indeed the Society unanimously concurred), who Mr. NI. with great feeling termed, his intelligent and faith ful fitend. NAUTICAL QUIBBLE. FATIIER. A Sailor is a drunken sor t . And shall not .have"tny danghtet— FRIEND. How can it be ! Have you forgot ? A Sailor lives on water. I THE THEATRE.-After the. new drama of The 1 :F,ee Knights, last night, at Covent-Gordon Thew re, a new Farce was- brought fu - ward, etitiih:d A Bud ! jet of Blunders. The plot, :2s usual, is founded upon- a love adventure, but the chief object wa s - to introduce two characters for - Mu NDEN and LISTON, each of whom considers the other as mad. Tl Arse characters, were antnirably supported by boih. FARLEY also was very successful in suppoiting the , part of the Doctor for mad people. This farce was not more iwprobab.e than many of the same kind, t. and it altogether.ve r y f or cibl y exerc i sed. the risible. muscles, It met wet h som e opposition, but was szippuried . by a xery,large-m l ori ty of .1 he audience. It was written . by Mr. GasvuuL, Author of The Portrait of 'Cervantes, and Is he a- Prince? who, I much to the honour of his feelings, devotes she r profits of all his dramatic efforts to the Theatr:cal I Fund. - As Miss BAILLIE'S new tragedy has been so well received by the Critioi of Edinburgh, who are cer lainly not excelled in omit:tress, though they may be in lenity, any where else, ills to be hoped that the London Managers will think proper to bring forward the work of a writer whose tak its do ho nour to her sex. The Play of filches, or the Wife and Brother, is now so'attracitve at the Lyceum, and his indeed been so judiciously altered from the original drama of MASSINGER, that it bids fair to rank among what are termed the stock-pieces of the_ Loudon Stage. - Alf. WALTER SCOTT'S Muse is .110 W, it seems, employed upon a Leke. She shculd. be particularly careful, lest a critical breeze should spring up,• and sink her. • UNrou-}141.1..--A case came on yesterday in , - iween four .rope7makers, at Bimnondsey and no therhithe, and twelve of their men, the latter ~f whom had struck, having demandedmatero ; . nen - wages, and that they should also he allowed i a dedudia qt 'two hours time each day from their I work, with whiclj ; the riia-vf.rs :refitcd to comply. The Magistrates, after a loll; heating, held the 19 • men to bail, to 4r,isr. , :r at the next Sesiions. . . t Further particulars of Ore dreadful It accident v fliic ' haPpened at Liverpool on Sunday morning last I " The number in the Church, owing to the ac" cidene taking pace near ten minutes previou sl y to the,tyrual time of Opening the service, was small , • but awfully '.arge in the contemplation of humanity.: Not more perhaps than from is to 2 0 grow n P er e : I sons were in 'the Church at the tine, and of these the greater pvrt escaped ; but the children Of tr ' Moorfidd Charity School, who are regularly march" ed in processiou from the School ,to the Church, somewhat earlier than the time of service, had P ar ,. ly entered. The boys following last, all escaped: but of the girls, who were either entering the POr c ..e " or proceeding up the aisle, a great number w e , instantly overwhelmed beneath the falltng - Pile' ee - The whole number of bodies taken - out from t" ' ruins is twenty-seven. Of these twenty-tw° ll ' er . ir either dead or died almost immediately after the e removal ; five were taken to the Infirmary, and" 1 of these is sinee dead. , • "The hideons - crashof the steeple, and the piers" ing shrieks which immediately issued from - th°'' e e who escaped in. the Church,eor were -witnesses °, ' • the catastrophe .in the church-yard, immedi atel brought 'a large concourse Of people to the spot. -- The•scerie was, throughout the whole of the fore.: noon, deeply atfe6ting. The parents of the chit dren in the School, and a number of others, htirrti .ing from place to_ place, enquiring the fate of their children or - relatives, in the utmost agitation, 'hed ghtene4 in m a ny cases by a long and awtitt.sus7 pense, and terminating in the extremes of joy cir . . . sorrow, as they found the objeas of their search In safety or among the sulißters. - Accidents of this kied usually gite rise 10 maul hairbreadth and surprising e s ca p e s, a nd the loil°" ,„ ‘ ing remarkable instances hav e be e n collet-led :-- The ringers, though apparently exposed to t he : greatest danger, Were ail .fortupate enough to, escap e ' with the exception of one, who was caught in th e ruins, along with a boy of i 4-. years of age, w h° ,was in the steeple at the same time. They were, however, both itumedierely extricated by the exec" ' lions of the other ringers. The man was but .slightly wounded, but the boy is since dead. Th e 'alarm, it appears, was given to the ringers by the falling of a stone upon the fifth bell, which pre vented its swing ;. upop which they inunediate l Y rat, out. A_ momeet did not elapse betore the bells, beams, and the upper floors fell to the bat torn of the totker, and their escape weuld ,liav been impossible had. not the belfry been ore the ground floor. .. The Rev. ,L..Pughe; the officiating minister for the , .day, entered the church-yard at nineteen, minutes past ten, having hi.nself noticed the clock upon his entrance: He proceeded immediately to the great • south door, and was in the aet of entering it, wade he was slopped for a kw seconds by the children of the, Moortield School, who ..% ere pressing into the church at the same time. Upon his appearance; a young woman, a t e acher in the school, and one o f •tlie .unthrtun-te sutierers, began to separate th e children .on each side to afrord him a. passage, ;Alen he he.ird a pet - son exclaim, " fur God's sake, Mr. t P u t er l i g )e he t , ate turn back." He stepped back, and looking up, perceived the spite sinking down toAards the edH. 15T19....-dia‘t.ly the whoto suit in. The ' Rev. R. Ronghsedge, ,the Retior., was at ' that time turning the north-west corner of the '-tower, and proceeding to the %eery, which is also at the west end of tae Church. kiss Lady - was already in the vestry, as were also Mr. C oventr y, the clerk, and the . sexton. - T fic t .t . i o e r c ti i ? c r u l in te s t i • a to n r c :p o p t e h a i r s s to have owed his safety to .aking the way on the out side of the church to the the more direct one of through the south door and the west aisle. pwaas M ss i i r ), . g ' i Knowles, thfrionri it,eiiwe 'one o rsy f 0 f t t l o t b e tti h C neg t 76 'iestry, in preference. tO - , A person . wesecraepebarlonkieosot to atom,, ruins. - that in which be sat sustain; he hi * 1 • ' z a t i n L . l d ,, t i ' l l e l a ie ed i' i s with a . 1. :0 1 11 11 C d S: li b n i U ll i ' inset got out or the church uneurt. He re 4 p rn u o b od li te c fivo t l e : r a a n ni kL e, but ;tux , 'lvy, a s t a o artn A ,ezp li i. v .u n a g p : c ): ,t y vceGs,,r)oc:dbiL:frroocrphl,rlii.ii: - astonishing acknowledging a s - nperintending Providence, I" an Y conspicuous in the must atpareni eontirn;ent ev , 11 14 0 as in diretting, the' smooth and regulai . current Y E puma, elfin; s. John tiandreth, one of the singers, was the only person• in the organ gelery, whiter is placed in t ll° - eolith-west cornet of the clinic!), immedi3tety j" 111 :- ing the insid e of the tower. Th e organ, and trout 0 ' the gallery were brought down and distien to pi..cefii . and Brandreth wai buried in the wreck. Toe 111- cpmbent weight was, however, sus tained cy tit , ° limbs which surrounded him in cross direeiemi, • and he was deg out with no other hurt than. a Sl i g ht cut in his forehead. These are the most' remarkable cases Which Lat e Hitherto reached US. '• ' In the speech whi c h J EttomE B UONAPARTS mgel& on. the 28th ulr. on the opening of the Sittings °I, the Det ; was the following passage : ,• " The Emperor, my exalted brother, to give to this kingdom, whi c h i s his creation, a prcof of ll's , • particular regard, has at thi s m oment g r anted 'it ad - r. vantages of high imp ortance. A 9 soon as i t s h a ll be., iiermitted to make th em k nown,, my peop l e will learn ..the value of these new benefits, and thego°4 . of which they will t;e prodtwtive." • It is afterwards observed in the same speech---!. • g! The arts, trades, and great uodertakings—in 'fine, every thing which , ccnti thutes to th e r iches and' glory of a nation, can duly be coliivoted• with suc cess on an extended territory, and with the aid of a numerous population." • • Sic the receipt -of this intelligence, a letter has Ip-en teceiyeA from Hamburgh, of which the fol lowing is an extract "• We have just receive,' information, from un questionable authority, that HUONAPARTE has de clared his determination,-thflugh not yet officially, to incorporate the Welty, of . 31denburg, and the Elec orate of Hanover, with the Kingdom of West— phalia."' • Earl GREY has purchased NO'RTHCOTE'S fine pi -c-!, tnre of the impriqomtlet t t bf AUGYLE, as related 1,14 Mr. Fox's posthumous hist o ry. ,•• • ,• iml Lord ball of CI In York; confined on the 'j Mr.} Stoner s t ed ( 0 L e Th e I Passed, a and 1 I)) Ufa / ‘4 IU Was